Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me for some Fine Points from yesterday’s service and message “A Change in the Law”.
Yesterday’s message was delivered in the backdrop of a nationwide protest and outrage over the public arrest and subsequent murder of an unarmed black citizen in Minneapolis, Minnesota that has been seen throughout America and around the world.
Along with the protest and demonstrations, rioting and destruction of both public and private property has occurred in many places. This behavior by police, mainly against nonwhite people, has its roots in laws that have defended law enforcement and private citizen’s use of deadly force against such people that date back to colonial America.
Beginning in colonial Virginia, nonwhite people were systematically denied citizenship and the protection of the law. In fact, laws were enacted that protected those who injured or killed nonwhite people from prosecution for their actions.
After nonwhite people were granted citizenship, the laws that protected law enforcement officers and others from prosecution of crimes against nonwhite people remained and continued as nonwhite people became citizens.
To this day, the law gives a pass to the mistreatment of nonwhite citizens. Stand your ground laws and citizen arrest laws are all intended to protect people from prosecution of crimes against nonwhite citizens.
In order to stop the unjust and brutal treatment of nonwhite citizens, there has to be a change in the law. The law has to stop protecting those who perpetrate these wrongful acts and begin protecting all citizens.
The first act that can be taken is to charge anyone who kills an unarmed person with murder no questions asked. Murders have been protected by so-called “fear for my life” and “perceived threats” defenses of the deadly actions.
These defenses should no longer be allowed to be used to justify killing unarmed citizens. Ignorance and misperception can’t be allowed to continue to justify the taking of human life if full protect of the law for all citizens is to be achieved.
In order to get the law changed, citizens most affected by the unjust law must act lawfully to win over a majority of people to see that the law is changed. But until that happens, crimes like we keep on witnessing will continue as long as the killers are protected by the law.
There has no doubt been countless other killings and injustices that have occurred in the past and are still occurring that we have no knowledge of. But with today’s ubiquitous presence of video recording devices and the advent of social media, crimes against nonwhite citizens has become increasingly likely to be captured and exposed.
Jesus came and changed the understanding of the law of God. People thought they could love the neighbors and hate their enemies. But Jesus told those who are the children of God that they must love their enemies.
For most people, this is a change in the law. It is a divine law which supersede all other law. God’s people do not have the option of hating, mistreating or retaliating against anyone. They are not allowed to return evil for evil. They must trust God to punish evildoers in His own way in His own time.
A change is the law is necessary for America to move pass its legacy of racism and mistreatment of nonwhite people before all citizens will be treated with the same respect and dignity. God requires mankind to adhere to a change in our understand of His law to be accepted as one of His children.
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Pastor Jordan
